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Ana Mendieta

(American/Cuban, 1948–1985)

Ana Mendieta

Untitled (Silueta Series), 1977

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Biography

Timeline

1948: Born: Havana, Cuba
1972: Received M.F.A. from University of Iowa
1985: Died: New York City

Exhibitions

2011: “Ana Mendieta: Blood and Fire,” Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo)
: “Surreal/Subjective: Recent Photographic Gifts From Alumni,” The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
: “TRA: The Edge of Becoming,” Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
: “Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
: “GOLDMINE: Contemporary Works From the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold,” University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
: “Art and Confrontation in Latin America: 1910-2010,” Palacio de Bellas Artes and Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
: Interventions in the Landscape, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
: “Ana Mendieta: Documentation and Artwork,1972-1985,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York (solo)
: “Where is Ana Mendieta? Donde esta Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later – AnExhibition and Symposium,” Fales Library, New York University, New York, NewYork (solo)
: “Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art,” New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
: “Expanded Horizon,” Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil
: “Fresh Hell,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
: “Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art,” Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucern, Switzerland
: “Crossing,” Paço das Artes, São Paolo, Brazil
: “Che cosa sono le nuvole? Artworks from the Enea Righi Collection,” Museion of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano, Italy
: “The Traveling Show,” La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
: “No Barrier Fun,” Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, New York
: “What Are Clouds? Works from the Enea Righi Collection,” The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy
: “Donna: Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s,” Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome, Italy
: “Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
: “Modelos Para Armar,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
: Collection Display: Level 5, “Energy and Process,” Tate Modern, London, England
: “Flowers, Lies and Revolution: Contemporary Cuban Art,” Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
: “MODEL KITS. Thinking Latin America from the MUSAC Collection,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
: “Other Than Beauty,” Friedman Benda, New York, New York
: “The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1939 to Today,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
: “Other Than Beauty,” Friedman Benda, New York, New York
: “Contemporary Art from the Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
: "Territories of Desire: Surfaces of Desire," Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico, D.F.
: “Electric Nights,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Traveled to LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
: “The Visible Vagina,” David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York
2010: “Silueta and Silence,” Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England (solo)
: “A Mancha Humana / The Human Stain,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air,” Cultuursite Mechelen, Belgium; organized by the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
: “Lest We Forget: The Voice of Art,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
: “Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today,” Groninger Museum, Groninger, the Netherlands
: “Hundred Stories About Love,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
: “Performer,” Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
: “Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969–2009,” Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, the Netherlands
: “Las Americas Latinas. Las fatigas del querer,” Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
2009: “People Looking at Blood, Moffitt,” Signal Contemporary Art Center, Malmö, Sweden (solo)
: “Harsh Terrain,” Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
: “Mexico: Expected / Unexpected,” The Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
: “Action, Reaction: Video Installations,” Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
: “Flower Power,” Villa Giulia, Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Verbania, Italy
: “She is a Femme Fatale,” Museu Colecção Berardo - Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
: Revolutions 1968, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
: Paths of Desire,St. Ambrose University Catich Gallery, Galvin Fine Arts Center, Davenport, Iowa
: Cancelled, Erased & Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
: Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds,Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
: SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
: Comme des bêtes: Ours, chat, cochon & cie, Le Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
: Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Women Artists, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
: “Converge: Ana Mendieta and Hans Breder 1970-1980,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
: “NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith,” Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Traveled to P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
: Body Memory,Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
: “Paths of Desire,” St. Ambrose University Catich Gallery, Galvin Fine Arts Center, Davenport, Iowa
: “Cancelled, Erased & Removed,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
: “Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds,” Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
: “SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
: “Comme des bêtes: Ours, chat, cochon & cie,” Le Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
: “Highlights of the Permanent Collection: Women Artists,” The Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
: “Body Memory,” Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
: “Revolutions 1968,” Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
: NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith,h Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Traveled to P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
: Sculptural Concepts, Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery, Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2008: “Burning Down the House: Building A Feminist Art Collection,” Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
: “Origins,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
: “The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art,” CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
: “re.act.feminism: performance art of the 1960’s and 70’s today,” Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
: Converge: Ana Mendieta and Hans Breder 1970-1980,h Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
: “Plano Intimo,” n/2: Nuevos Medios, Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain
: “Live Art on Camera,” John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom
: “Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead,” Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Traveled through 2008 to the Deutschen Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
: “Performance on Demand,” Electronic Arts Intermix Viewing Room at EFA Gallery, New York, New York
: “The Naked Portrait,” Portrait Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
: “A Batalla Dos Xéneros [Gender Battle],” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: “New York States of Mind,” House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany; Traveled through 2008 to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
: Arte ‚ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
: Correspondences: Contemporary Art from the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Beard Gallery and Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
: Pop to the Present: New Questions, New Responses,Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
: Cuba! Artists Experience Their Country, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
: “Death & Love in Modern Times,” Dinter Fine Art, New York, New York
: “En Primeira Persoa: Relacións do Suxeito na Intimidade,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Traveled through 2008 to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
: “Speed #1,” Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
: “Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
: “Out of Body,” Level B Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York
: “Luz ao Sul,” Convento del Carmen, Valencia, Spain
: “Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
: “Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
: “Wrestle,” Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
: “AGENTS of Change: Women, Art and Intellect,” Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
: “Conceptual Photography: 1964-1989,” Zwirner & Wirth, New York, New York
: Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
: New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Prints, Photographs, and Media Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
: Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: Fortunate Objects: An Exploration of the Everyday in Art, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
2007: LAB.07: Arte, Deshonra y Violencia en el Contexto Iberoamericano,Centro Cultural de España Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
: “TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California; traveling through 2008 to Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
: “The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984,” The Grey Gallery, New York University, New York, New York
: “Primera generación: Arte e imagen en movimiento [1963-1986],” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: “Notations: Energy Yes!,” Philadephia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
: Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
: “Into Me/Out of Me,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; Traveled through 2007 to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
: “The Gesture,” Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloníki, Greece
: “Drawn Into the World: Drawings from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
: “Civil Restitutions,” Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
: “Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection,” Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
: Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: “All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go,” Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
2006: “A Curator’s Eye: the Visual Legacy of Robery A. Sobieszek,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
: “Hair Die,” A/V, Rochester, New York
: Heroines: Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Ana Mendieta; Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
: “Indeterminate States: Video from the Cisneros Fontanals Collection,” Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
: “Points of View: Landscape and Photography,” Galerie Lelong, New York
: Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
: “SlideShow,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (catalogue)
2005: “Beyond the Performance: Ana Mendieta in the 1970’s,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
: “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,” Remy Toledo Gallery, New York
2004: “Esprit,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
: “Paisaje & Memoria [Landscape & Memory],” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Vegueta, Spain
: “I Am the Walrus,” Cheim and Reid, New York
: Ana Mendieta Film Works and Drawings 1974 - 1985 , Galerie Lelong, New York
: “Ana Mendieta: Earth Body,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; traveling to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida July 1 to September 19, 2004
: Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; traveled to The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
: “Il Bello e le bestie,” Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Italy
: “Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; traveled to The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2003 - 2005: “Last Picture Show: Artist Using Photography, 1960 – 1982,” Walker Art Center, October 11, 2003 – January 11, 2004, traveled to: UCLA Hammer Museum, February 8, 2004 – May 9, 2004; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, November 26, 2004 – February 13, 2004
: “Through the Looking Glass: Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art,” Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
: “After Image,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
: Ana Mendieta (1948 – 1985) – Body Tracks, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, March 29 – July 27, 2003
2003: “M_ARS: Art and War,” Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Germany, January 10th – March 26th, 2003
: “And the One Doesn’t Stir without the Other,” Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2002 - 2004: “Gloria: Another Look At Feminist Art of the 1970s,” White Columns, New York, September 13 - October 20, 2002, exhibition traveled to: The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 21 - February 26, 2003; and The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, November 21, 2003 - February 1, 2004
2002 - 2003: Ana Mendieta (1948 – 1985) – Body Tracks, Neues Kunst Museum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2002: Ana Mendieta Selected Works, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
: Goddess, Galerie Lelong, New York
: Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, June 27 – September 22, 2002
: Structures of Difference, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, October 22 – April 13, 2002
: “The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, November 27, 2002 – March 2, 2003
: Burn: Artists Play with Fire, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
: New York ca. 1975, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
: Minimalism Past And Presence, Galerie Lelong, New York
: El Instante Eterno: Art and Spirituality at the Change of Millenium, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain
: Vito Acconci and Ana Mendieta: A Relationship Study, 1969-1976, Galerie Lelong, New York
: The Gift, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
: Ana Mendieta: Performance works, Siluetas, Drawings, and Objects, Galerie Lelong, Zürich
2001: Ana Mendieta and Vito Acconci: A Relationship Study 1969-1976, Galerie Lelong, New York
: Echoes of the Scream, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark,
: Vivências (Life Experiences), Generali Foundation, Wein, Austria
: Conceptual Photography and the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
: Ana Mendieta and Vito Acconci: A Relationship Study 1969-1976, Galerie Lelong, New York
: Performing Bodies – Ecstatic Repetitions, Tate Modern, London, England
: Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
: Mennesket – Et halvt arhundrede set gennem kroppem (MAN – Body in art from 1950 to 2000), Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
: Tempus Fugit: Time Flies, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
: Conceptual Photography and the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim
: The End: An Independent Vision of the History of Contemporary Art, Exit Art
2000: Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris
: Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
: Impact: Revealing Sources for..., Contemporary Museum Baltimore
1999 - 1998: Defining Eye:Women Photographers..., Saint Louis Art Museum Saint Louis
: Ana Mendieta, Museo Rufino Tamayo Mexico City, Mexico
: Ana Mendieta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
: Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and Place, Katonah Art Museum, NY
: Impact: Revealing sources For Contemporary Art, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
: Natural Reality, The Ludwig Forum, Cologne, Germany
: Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
: Reflections of Time and Place: Latin American Still Life in the 20th Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1999: Regarding Beauty In Performance and the Media Arts, 1960-1999, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
: Skin-Deep, Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
: Ana Mendieta, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
1998: Out of Actions: Between..., The Museum of Contemp. Art Los Angeles, CA
: Etre Nature, Foundation Cartier Paris, France
: Ana Mendieta, Museum of Contemp. Art, L.A. Los Angeles, CA
: Ana Mendieta, Blum & Poe Los Angeles, CA
: Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Traveling exhibition to Museu de Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokio, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan.

Literature

2004: Viso, Olga M., Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, published by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Hatje Cantz in conjunction with the traveling retrospective
1999: Blocker, Jane, Where is Ana Mendieta, Identity, Performativity, and Exile, Duke University Press, 1999
1996: Ana Mendieta, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compestela, published in conjunction with the traveling retrospective exhibition, with essays by: Donald Kuspit, Raquelin Mendieta, Charles Merewether, Gloria Moure, Mary Sabbatino.
: Ana Mendieta: 1948 - 1985, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, 1996, with essays by: Tuula Karjalainen, Raqulin Mendieta, Mary Sabbatino
1992: Clearwater, Bonnie. Ana Mendieta: A Book of Works, published by Grassfield Press Inc., Miami, Florida.
: Ana Mendieta: The 'Silueta' Series, 1973-1980, published by Galerie Lelong, New York, with text by Mary Jane Jacob.
1987: Ana Mendieta: A Retrospective, published by The New Museum of Contemporary Art, with essays by: Petra Barreras del Rio, John Perreault, Marcia Tucker

Ana Mendieta

(American/Cuban, 1948–1985)

Ana Mendieta

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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